Eric Hoffer Quotes

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Eric Hoffer

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• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

  

  Origen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Living
  • Lie
  • Secrets

• At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Amazing
  • Dinner
  • Meet

• I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Life
  • You
  • Jeans

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Stress
  • Appearance
  • Too Much

• It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Eyes
  • Moving
  • Goal

• I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Hands
  • Wealth
  • Communism

• Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.

  

  Sam Graves
  • City
  • Nation
  • Kansas

• I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

  

  Gail Collins
  • House
  • Health
  • Car

• I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • Education
  • College

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Humor

• I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Think
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  • Jews

• Fans who drive insane amount of hours to come to a show still amazes me. I mean, it can get up to 10 hours! That's loyalty.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Up
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  • Fans

• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • High
  • Goal

• Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk

• One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • World
  • Study

• When you bow your head to pray - when you’re in a jam and you need to ask God for something - are you aware of who you’re talking to?

  

  Chip Ingram
  • God
  • Need
  • Pray

• Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Life

• I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Day
  • Jesus
  • Stupid

• I think what is important, whether you are Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, is to embrace and own your identity. I think that's not political. That's good in life, and it certainly is the best way to be when you are running for office. If you don't do that, the voters will see through it.

  

  Joel Benenson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

  

  Eric Hoffer